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  • IT'S a little disconcerting to walk into a hotel room and find a quintet of young men all wearing slap which is far more expertly applied than your own.
  • She also outlined another misconception that could explain the suspicion research nurses often encounter among other nurses.
  • It is a commonly held misconception, due to the informal traditions of electronic communication, that e-mails carry less weight than letters on headed notepaper.
  • Dalmius nursed the invigorating fire-drink from a horn-flask, ensconced in leather, e'en as his thin hands trembled.
  • Clara looked momentarily disconcerted but wasn't about to concede defeat after upbraiding Nicholas a moment before.
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  • That might have been crass, but the film is peppered with jarring references and disconcerting parallels to current events.
  • Nick was comfortably ensconced in front of the TV set.
  • She is now happily ensconced in a new relationship. Times, Sunday Times
  • looked at each other dumbly, quite disconcerted
  • Sure, he ensconced his old girlfriend Wendy Linka out there.
  • We have ensconce ourselves in the most beautiful villa in the south of france.
  • In that context, I found phrases like these kind of disconcerting and hard to read: the passions of his bewildered heart … a maelstrom of melancholicaly erupted emotion … causing a bit of the guilt to spatter through his brow … that would never permit his repression, never allow for nothing short of predetermined apocalyptic salvation. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
  • Norwegian royalty is shorn of regalia but is safety ensconced in respect.
  • However, once inside, they will be comfortably ensconced in well designed seats.
  • Titian with Duccio, for example - making them consecutive leads to disconcerting contiguities before and aft, Crivelli with Campin, Velázquez with Stubbs... Evening Standard - Home
  • Torches guttered in iron sconces set about the cavern and cabinets emerged at bizarre angles from ancient columns of stone etched with unnatural runes.
  • gentled" him all over his miserable frame, as he lay panting and overpowered on the sawdust, conquered and convinced at last, all his mistakes and misconceptions of other people came before him, as plainly as if Taffy himself had spoken them; so plainly, that he wondered at himself. Parables From Nature
  • However, this misconception serves to desex women by denying them their right to freedom of sexual expression.
  • But since she'd considered herself relatively fit, she was disconcerted when her muscles began aching after just a short time.
  • Two misconceptions about the Treaty of Maastricht have been allowed to gain currency.
  • The hostile gang was temporarily disconcerted by the manoeuvre, then it dashed from the train in pursuit. Chapter 42
  • It's been a week and he still regards me with that disconcertingly haunted stare.
  • This second-hand or transcribed social history isn't "parodic," just misconceived, and testimony (if any is needed) to the increasing inability to discern what our disciplinary base actually is in "literary-and-cultural studies," and why it matters that we cannot and should not be simply pale echoes of better-equipped social historians like Colley herself. Presentism and the Archives
  • The ambassador was clearly disconcerted by the British reaction.
  • After his cult hit Withnail & I, writer-director Bruce Robinson teamed up again with Richard E Grant for this misconceived satire about an advertising whizz-kid who develops an alter-ego in the form of a talking boil on his shoulder. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Black candles flickered in sconces on the walls and by the trencher.
  • In my judgment an attempt to formulate a duty of care in this way is wholly misconceived.
  • In other words, the name "governmentalism," while intended as a word of opprobrium for socialism, really indicates the amazing misconception which the critics have of the nation itself, and of the relation of the nation's life to its self-direction. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
  • The misconceived refusal to give Charlie Adam a penalty and send off Philippe Senderos on the hour, a spoilsport decision to disallow a goal for Luis Suárez midway through the second half and a red card for the young midfielder Jay Spearing a few minutes later prefaced a crescendo of Fulham attacking which ended with a dreadful Pepe Reina error and a decisive tap-in for Clint Dempsey. Andy Carroll's ineffectiveness adds to Liverpool frustration at Fulham | Richard Williams
  • Misconception number two is that fat cells migrate to treated areas from other parts of the body to keep an even distribution of body fat.
  • Once we put everything that exists into these two categories, we now have two types of ignoranceone that mistakenly perceives persons to inherently exist and another that misconceives other phenomena to inherently exist. Becoming Enlightened
  • We are now in a position to notice, without any danger of misconception, what is called the segmental theory of the skull. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
  • It appears, worryingly, that these misconceptions are shared by many of our politicians.
  • There was a most disconcerting wobble to the steering.
  • Every day we continue to be fat, dumb, and happy with our IANA private ranges and doing port address translation at the firewall is another day further ensconced in the inebriation of IPv4. Five-year plan: 8 problems IT must solve
  • The photographer was my old friend Bill Seil, who was at the time a newspaper reporter and is now ensconced in the Boeing PR apparat. A Personal Note
  • Sound is presented in a simple Dolby Digital 2.0 mix and will not rattle sconces from your walls or make the neighbors head for the hills.
  • After Gus (Giancarlo Esposito) threatened Walt (Bryan Cranston) and his family on last week's Breaking Bad, Walt decides it's time to make sure Skyler (Anna Gunn), Junior (RJ Mitte) and Holly are safely ensconced at Hank's house. Breaking Bad Sneak Peek: Is Walt Ready to Face His Consequences?
  • It's the time when the garden is full of new and constantly changing possibilities every time you step outside, where the farmer's markets are essentially throwing their produce at you and even though the kids are once again ensconced in schoolrooms nobody is quite ready for the warm, golden nights to end. The Dinners of Summer
  • That said, I don't think your note was uncharitable, but generally sounded the normal problems and misconceptions Protestants have with the Faith.
  • And to make the defense of the West hinge upon German rearmament is to misconceive the dimensions of the problem. Britain Versus Europe—The Schuman Plan and German Revival
  • Grieve suggests that brave good-faith have-a-go heroes will not face arrest, and then in disconcerting non sequitor that once arrested, investigated and passed to the CPS good intentions will be a factor in deciding what next. Con-Watch: Have-a-Go-Hero Dominic Grieve
  • Edward was a year old then, and we were happily ensconced on the south coast.
  • The fact that he cites, in his defense, a first class degree from Cambridge ‘specializing in philosophy’ only makes more indefensible his howlers and misconceptions.
  • I do hope that was safely ensconced in inverted commas. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some thought he was about to insconce himself under the table; he himself alleged that he stumbled in the act of lifting a joint-stool, to prevent mischief, by knocking down Waverley — Complete
  • The plan to build the road through the forest is wholly misconceived.
  • I was ensconced on the sofa reading the paper when its shrill beeping tone drifted down the stairs.
  • Expecting the idiosyncratic, the bizarre, possibly the androgyne, they were disconcerted when confronted with what THE IMAGE OF LAURA
  • And the state Department of Public Safety has little jurisdiction to keep the diesels ensconced within their border habitat.
  • There's no cause to be "disconcerted" by this, and neither is there any reason to obscure the real uncertainties and open questions that scientists are working on. RealClimate
  • Others, shaping to play defensively, were beaten by turn and Steve Kirby was disconcerted by a ball that spun the other way.
  • Another popular misconception has to do with Islam and terrorism.
  • Looking to be good people and hoping in some vague way to fulfill themselves, its upper-middle-class couple adopts, not a child, but an elderly man and wife formerly ensconced in a nursing facility.
  • The basic misconception was that caloric was a conserved substance, that is it could ‘neither be created nor destroyed’.
  • He wrote about perspective phenomena, but the etymological synonymity of optics and perspective has often led to the misconception that he wrote about perspective constructions.
  • There are many misconceptions about the technology. Times, Sunday Times
  • And, besides, it's such good fun to see how one virtuous man can so disconcert you captains of industry and arbiters of destiny. THEFT
  • Why was T J Hooker still working the streets when he was a Sergeant, and should have been ensconced in a cosy desk job at his age?
  • Some thought he was about to insconce himself under the table; he himself alleged that he stumbled in the act of lifting a joint-stool, to prevent mischief, by knocking down Balmawhapple. Waverley
  • The sense of time lapse is disconcerting, seemingly reliant on the drama evoked by the size of the projected images rather than the impact of the work itself.
  • So while the Japanese infantryman preparing to meet his Soviet counterpart could be in high spirits, his misunderstanding and misconceptions about the Red Army were about to exact a terrible price.
  • The misconceived pre-publicity for the series blew the gaff on this one, so unlike the main supporting characters, we knew all along that she wasn't out of her mind, just out of her body.
  • There seems to be this misconception that she's a rampant self-publicist: the evidence I've encountered suggests precisely the opposite.
  • October 2: Reynolds ensconces himself in children, refuses to ask children to leave conference room, fields press questions about a congressional man-boy-love sex scandal. Midterm Roundup
  • In the 1814 plan there was no hope to reconquer the United States, but with a British army firmly ensconced in the interior of New York, amid what the British yet again assumed was a sympathetic population, the Americans might have to concede a more southerly border for the Canadian provinces, if not in New York, then perhaps in Maine. Between War and Peace
  • But the showcase project seemed misconceived from the start, too powerful for North Korea's electrical system, too expensive to be economical.
  • The plan to build the road through the forest is wholly misconceived.
  • The first misconception is that legal study at university is exclusively for students who intend becoming solicitors or advocates.
  • In the old days a young chef with ambitions to write their own menu would have raised £1.5m to launch something gilded and marbled and sconced. Restaurant review: Pitt Cue Co
  • Mediaset, however, said it is "disconcerted" by the commission's decision and will appeal at the European Court of Justice. EU Clears Sky Italia's Entry Into Free Digital TV Market
  • She also corrects small misconceptions that have been propagated in the many existing potted biographies of Franklin.
  • The initial sense of holding the reins but having no contact with the horse's body is disconcerting, a bit like washing your feet with your socks on. Times, Sunday Times
  • The result was a campaign misconceived at the outset and badly coordinated not only between civilian and military but between the various levels of command.
  • Therefore the wider circulation of such policy statements needs to be a priority in order to correct that misconception.
  • That and a desire to appeal to a more universal crowd left the title firmly ensconced in the "T for Teen" rating category. DigitalBattle.com
  • We stood outside to get windswept, missed the commentary and walked ashore to discover that Rottnest Island is overrun with quokkas - long tailed, short faced, round-eared marsupials that look disconcertingly like giant rats.
  • I mean, I'm kind of … 'ensconced' is not the right word, but I'm there, I'm here. Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
  • The spaces need indirect lighting sources, preferably wall sconces and floor lamps to be less harsh on members' eyes when lying on their backs.
  • The Colonel reached up and pressed the switch hidden in the candle sconce, the concealed panel swung open. WEEKEND FOR MURDER
  • Within Paganism, I think that there's a misconception that being pantheistic equals the absence of wrong.
  • Thread the fabric through the wreath and let it fall lightly across each lighting sconce.
  • It produces stunning, if rather disconcerting, red cider and juice. Times, Sunday Times
  • Up close and personal can be disconcerting. Times, Sunday Times
  • After dinner we went to the library in case we still had no power (when you live in the country the absolute pitch black of a nighttime power outage is a little disconcerting with small, squirrely, active children) and then came home to lights and Cheerio Chocolate Chip Cookies. Lights Out! The Best Laid Plans Of Mice And Men…Cheerio Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • And undoubtedly, their mysterious, indefinable quality is the source of their disconcerting power.
  • He would have disconcerted the foreign powers, augmented his popularity, centuplicated his forces: but on the first of June it was too late: the additional act had appeared. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II
  • One of the most common misconceptions about homosexual people is how our sexuality is determined.
  • I intend to ensconce myself in a nice hotel looking out on Central Park on Saturday and Sunday.
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  • I still find this extremely disconcerting so I went in search of a solitary place to relax.
  • Radio silence can end now: I managed to successfully move flats on the weekend and am now ensconced chez the gracious Meg and Paul in W14.
  • Indeed, it often appears to the Asians that the US and Europe are generally only solicitous of their views and insights, when it's time to cough up more money for another misconceived bailout.
  • It's a little disconcerting hearing the wide-eyed troubadour so distraught, but if it's any consolation, the emotional intensity of his folksy confessionals and heartfelt power-pop nuggets have been jacked up considerably.
  • Do not be disconcerted if your insurer appoints a loss adjuster.
  • A lot of the original points of view were based on misconceptions about the other side's point of view.
  • In the 1814 plan there was no hope to reconquer the United States, but with a British army firmly ensconced in the interior of New York, amid what the British yet again assumed was a sympathetic population, the Americans might have to concede a more southerly border for the Canadian provinces, if not in New York, then perhaps in Maine. Between War and Peace
  • Many of the fears and misconceptions shaping our options and influencing our choices are by-products of this fallacy.
  • I have a big project which I can't undertake until we're ensconced in somewhere stable.
  • Disconcertingly, these could retract completely into their platelike central bodies and reemerge elsewhere. Lost And Found
  • Despite the author's appealing, quirky sense of humor, her tale disconcerts with tasteless rodomontade more than it describes the fraught challenges in the complex geography of her portfolio. C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle
  • What a terrible, ugly, misconceived idea. Times, Sunday Times
  • For the distribution of misconceptions, narrative misconceptions usually cluster on the Principle of Le Chatelier and Effective Collision.
  • But he tends to leave an impression of intellectual dishonesty, a disconcerting lack of sincerity.
  • It is a common misconception that students do not pay tax on earnings. Times, Sunday Times
  • All in all, it looks like a misconceived vanity project. Times, Sunday Times
  • Suspicion and misconceptions about Zimbabwe can only be cleared when there is dialogue and openness.
  • But it can be a bit disconcerting for the other player at the table. The Sun
  • Shayne, disconcerted by the sudden invitation, answered quickly, "That would take a bit of negotiation with my husband."
  • Time and again, history has shown that waging battles to usher in peace have been misconceived notions, for such attempts have only succeeded in breeding hatred and mistrust in society.
  • Dealers would not show him, as he had a disconcerting habit of giving his paintings away for free, and he openly showed his scorn for them. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the intervening years, May Day has become ensconced in international workers' movements.
  • Yes, Leo, it's always disconcerting to be shafted by someone you care about.
  • Once ensconced as a fully-fledged academic, he narrowed his field of hobbies to include amateur beatification and canasta.
  • It is a disconcerting moment, not least because Felix looks very like his father - the same warm eyes, perpetual half-smile and toothy jowliness. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • When designer Rei Kawakubo tucks pillows under blouses and shows her collection in utter silence, simple clothes become disconcerting theater.
  • Some users have found this disconcerting. Times, Sunday Times
  • Either way, these commentators must be feeling more than slightly disconcerted. Times, Sunday Times
  • As someone who has made her name deconstructing the minutiae of the high street, she was disconcertingly long on concept and short on detail of her own business. TV review: Mary Queen of Frocks; Transplant
  • Sixteen metres below the raging battle, Hitler and his myrmidons were ensconced in a bunker that lacked the facilities to track enemy movements.
  • With infinite timidity he turned his head and encountered a gaze so soft, so hallowed, that it disconcerted him, and he dropped a "drumstick" of fried chicken, well dotted with ants, from his plate. Ramsey Milholland
  • Minto's skilful treatment, became gorgeous enough for the most exacting Asiatic, with its black marble floor, its rose-coloured silk walls where great silver sconces alternated with full-length portraits of British sovereigns, its white "chunam" columns and its gilt Italian furniture. The Days Before Yesterday
  • It's a bit disconcerting, but intriguing. Times, Sunday Times
  • With a disconcerting habit of coming on stage dressed in a red Lycra superhero costume, he seems to set the tone for the rest of the night.
  • Here we see a number of basic misconceptions about the nature of language and about what constitutes competence in a language, as they have been applied specifically to bilinguals.
  • Once safely ensconced inside there is ample space provided to put cups, though very little space in the door pockets for anything.
  • Ornate sconces lined the walls, bringing the hall into flickering illumination.
  • In our submission, that misconceives the characterisation of the loss.
  • If the objectives are misplaced, the plan misconceived, the resources unavailable or poorly mobilized, then the strategy will fail and this will be the strategist's responsibility.
  • The Countess pulled a thick candle from a sconce and lit it over the fire. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Then Martin ensconced himself upon a lower limb of the tree, which had a mossy cushion against the trunk as though nature or time had designed it for a teller of tales. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
  • In addition, in one important respect the president has misconceived the relation between the promotion of democracy and America's national security interests.
  • She may be surprised, disconcerted; she may even have had no conscious intention of getting involved with this particular man.
  • Iron sconces and several large chandeliers lit the dining room brightly.
  • Hitching the blanket more firmly into place, laying a hand on his wide shoulder which was as disconcertingly warm, smooth-skinned, and heavily muscled as his arm to steady herself, she gritted her teeth and put the flame to his flesh with no more roundaboutness. Shameless
  • It is a disconcerting, even radical book, and its central subject, as in much of Warner's work, is the inherent strangeness of the self, resistant to control, insusceptible to coercion, demanding one way or another to be discovered and demanding more after that. Authors and others
  • Anyone who's returned their Apple laptop for repairs knows that Apple first ships out a wonderfully compact box, packed efficiently with protective stuffing to ensconce the computer. Apple's Uses Ultra-Large Boxes To Replace Ultra-Compact USB Power Chargers - The Consumerist
  • Nato's smaller fish may find this disconcerting and expensive but they need to get used to it. Times, Sunday Times
  • By bringing together persons who have triumphed over the disease, the organisers expect to dispel several misconceptions about cancer.
  • The sconces on the walls varied - they were both on display and currently in use.
  • Your first step onto the revolving disc that holds the tables can be a bit disconcerting and it's easy to get lost as your seat sidles away while you're loading up your plate.
  • Finding myself in want of a particular Gazetteer which was not to be found in the office, and being in no mood to take a clerk, however uncritical, into my confidence, I called a hansom and drove straight to the Museum; where, having ensconced myself in the reading-room with the work in question, I prepared to devote a dusty and laborious morning to the service of State. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
  • You can also let a creeping fig or other dense vine cover a block wall between you and your neighbors, or add planting sconces to walls and gates.
  • Contrary to popular misconception, it is not a collection of gestures or mime.
  • The mild drum & bass mix gives a sense of fracturing and reassembling, but not to the point where it's disconcerting.
  • The plan to build the road through the forest is wholly misconceived.
  • The idea that play of any stripe is always an irrelevant diversion is a misconception. Archive 2008-04-01
  • There is a very simple solution if you find this disconcerting: get down there and do it for her. Times, Sunday Times
  • Only if you're installing wall sconces, or recessed overhead lights, will you need to do electrical work in a room to change the lighting.
  • In Golden Bird House, a similarly disconcerting picture, scumbled ocher brushstrokes fill the sky behind a white turretlike construction resting atop a pole.
  • There's something slightly disconcerting about rappers reaching the ripe old age of 40.
  • She was soon ensconced in a delivery room that looked over the upper west side. Times, Sunday Times
  • The secret agent in his place, he wrote, the infiltrator safely ensconced.
  • Solution: Install a wall sconce inside your linen closet or storage cabinet.
  • People are disconcerted, even frightened by that kind of lack of personal control.
  • She held her sword firmly in her hand, the elven blade gleaming in the firelight the radiated off of the torches that were in the sconces along the wall.
  • Inside, the public rooms were sumptuously decorated in the florid style of old Venice with arching, beamed ceilings, sconced walls covered with opulent moire silks, and lush color everywhere - the wholly Venetian shades of blue, green, yellow and burnt orange. The Kaisho
  • The stilted atmosphere would strike outsiders as disconcertingly weird, but these women are oblivious to the awkwardness.
  • This argument misconceives the nature of the plaintiffs The Volokh Conspiracy » A Rare Circuit Case Allowing a “Rational Basis” Challenge To Go Forward:
  • Although von Baer was critical of the excesses of Naturphilosophie, Barry manages to give a firmly progressionist message, with Man prominently ensconced at the top. Thoughts in a Haystack
  • After dinner, I ensconced myself in a deep armchair with a book.
  • There is a misconception he has always been a Palace favourite, that somehow he was destined to become manager one day. The Sun
  • There is a common misconception about anger. Times, Sunday Times
  • While ignored by the bullish contingent, we will highlight recent data on corporate debt quality that is quite disconcerting.
  • In appropriate touching, staring, and verbiage is also upsetting, disconcerting, or distracting to many people as well. Do you think "Consent is Sexy"?
  • Rich was waiting for her in the conference room, a sconced, heavily curtained rectangle softened by floor-to - ceiling bookcases and the Old World cornices and moldings she had had put up. Second Skin
  • Statistics show that domestic violence in the borough has significantly increased and it is misconceived by many that victims of this type of crime are from poor families.
  • Another popular misconception of Darwinian evolution is that its products must be genetically determined because their inheritance depends on genes.
  • It is, in fact, the immobility and abstraction of the Discharged Soldier that disconcerts the onlooker: no visibility is to be found here in the eye of the seer. The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster
  • It has just ended in divorce, but both their sons are happily ensconced at Ermysted's Grammar School and are growing up as real Dalesmen.
  • Their remake of the 1969 John Wayne semiclassic hews faithfully to Charles Portis' laconically funny novel, adding just a few Coenesque moments of irony, disconcerting violence and grotesquerie. StarTribune.com rss feed
  • I get a bit disconcerted when he's not. Times, Sunday Times
  • His bulk disguised a sharp mind that was more than able to deflate those who believed the misconception of their eyes. THE MANANA MAN
  • Not just cute and beguiling, Pilkington's sculptures are slightly off-centre being both disarming and disconcerting.
  • Neither the promoter nor its agents can accept responsibility for any discrepancies, inaccuracies or misconceptions given or construed. The Sun
  • Millar has him say this, but then firmly ensconces him in the world of a "geek. Kick-Ass #1 Review | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • ‘There is a disconcerting symmetry between Prozac and Ritalin,’ he writes.
  • But the family may find some of your plans disconcerting so factor in time to talk things through. The Sun
  • After a cacophonous ascent and destructive return to earth, it dies disconcertingly into reverberations of swashing seashore breakers, intertwined with disorientating echoes of still wailing guitars.
  • Considering the disrepute in which the Chicago School currently finds itself within economics, do we really want to ensconce that economic model (er, religion?) in the highcourt? The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama’s Diverse Shortlist
  • The singer did turn up but she remained firmly ensconced in a VIP room at the back of the venue and refused to appear on stage. Times, Sunday Times
  • He appeared in the final Old Vic season (before the new National theatre was ensconced there in 1963), forging a friendship with the actor Vernon Dobtcheff, who remembers "an astringent mentor, an elegant guru and a larky friend" – one who would sail diagonally through the fierce traffic on the Waterloo Road with a cry of: "They wouldn't dare: they couldn't face the litigation. David William obituary
  • It was especially disconcerting to watch my wife being rolled into the gapping mouth of a machine centrally located in an otherwise barren room. Paul Kerr: My Beautiful Bald Wife
  • I do feel qualified to offer a personal view of some disconcerting aspects of how politicians and big business conspire to run the show.
  • His arguments are totally misconceived.
  • Classical music is still burdened by so many myths and misconceptions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Are there many misconceptions about her? Times, Sunday Times
  • She has spoken recently of her desire to correct the many misconceptions she fears we hold about her. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ensconced at First Lutheran Church in Back Bay, the venue provided some questionable Boston hospitality via the city's skinflint approach to parking — a meter maid was already lurking as I fed my quarters; the concert featured multiple announcements of which cars were in the process of being towed. Authentication keys
  • Decorative lighting - sconces, pendants, lamps, or chandeliers - also should be selected at this time so the appropriate wiring can be installed.
  • And the Church finds that very disconcerting at a troubling time like this. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was aware that this was disconcerting to those who had called to condole. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
  • Reading his book over a century later, in an age that has sentimentalised illness and therapy, his remarks sound disconcertingly moderate.
  • In long passages both bawdy and fantastic, we are shown how the feminine principle makes nonsense of all forms of statecraft, including even the cleverest ones adumbrated in The Prince, and how the distance between the boudoir and the bordello or zenana or harem is disconcertingly short. Cassocks and Codpieces
  • Oil lamps burned in sconces along the walls, lighting the companions' way.
  • There are a number of contributing causes to throat stiffness, but the principal cause is _throat consciousness_ and misplaced effort, due largely to current misconceptions regarding the voice. Resonance in Singing and Speaking
  • But we submit that the traditional test of corroboration provides a practical guide to the issue and that the Court of Criminal Appeal wholly misconceived that concept.
  • Set beside the lives of his contemporaries ensconced in the unobjectionably attractive stability of writing-program appointments, his biography has long seemed the stuff of legend.
  • By then he will be firmly ensconced in Scotland. Times, Sunday Times
  • I've always been disconcerted as to why cities fall all over themselves trying to win the burden of the Olympics.

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